Show FROM INFANT TO FUll GROWN MAN MANDay Day of the Autos Maturity Will Be Demonstrated at Show DEVELOPMENT VERY RAPID AMERICAN IDEAS HAVE COME TO FOREIN MANUFACTURE TURE Ten o or twelve years ago the a tomo bile industry was born Since then ps as Winthrop E Scarritt once said the in infant infant fant has passed through the period ot of colic mumps chickenpox and measles and has safely come to sturdy stalwart young manhood ready to take It its place m n the workaday world of human ac activities activities It has grown In twelve years from rom nothing to a commanding place with an enormous annual output a avast avast vast Investment of capital a huge salary roll and has pulled up with It Ita ita a number of minor Industries concerned in the manufacture of at accessorieS ot of which allied Interests the manufacture ot of automobiles has more probably than any other industry With the American tendency to ape claUze and the habit of the American consumer to demand everything that thatis is new and to seize once that stage Is passed upon everything that Is useful and timesaving it was inevitable that the Industry here should almost from Ue the start assume certain features positively positively startling to the originators of the Industry in the broad sense of the word abroad For It Is true that for once America was caught napping In Inthe inthe the beginning of an industrial revolution revolution tion The Tho question of at who Invented the petrol or gasoline motor and first thought ot of applying that principle to a vehicle Is of little relative rela relative tive importance The fact Is that It was in Europe that the automobile was developed Into something with commercial com commercial mercial possibilities and it Is there that the painstaking and laborious experiments ex that were necessary were carried on 4 America Was Some Slow That Is the fact which explains Americas Amer kas delay In getting a comprehensive grasp of the situation Here and there theren I n America were men who saw what was coming and who were working at atthe atthe the problems and Sel Selden Selden den among others But something more than that was needed Small bo bodies bodies dies ot of enthusiasts had to work at the problem from every angle It was not work for one man and experiments In Involved involved a use of money and a use of time by a large number of individuals working separately but along the same lines Unes with no tangible results to cheer them along from time to time Ther the American temperament en enters enters Into the sItuation Americans in inthe inthe the mass can work out definite problems problems lems with a thoroughness and a speed seed that can be approached by no other na nation nation tion But It Is not a national gift to work along slowly and perseveringly seeking always something Industry Built Up After the first painful had been accomplished and It was seen that a definIte future lay before the automobile hundreds of brilliant Americans began to concentrate their thoughts and their work on the definite problems that separated them from the ultimate goal of perfection These men have built up the Industry In America have put It In the first rank and have seen with unerring judgment the chance for specialization They have worked out superb selling organizations organizations developed the stock car race and made the automobile a factor of at the national life Ufe They have lighted upon the small cheap oar ar wIth its manifold usefulness They have reduced cost both original and constant They have made a small fast car almost essential to the physician and hit upon the uni universal universal versal appeal made by the use of cars carsby carsby by doctors Every doctor who uses a acar acar car Is a potential indeed a powerful selling agent for tor his car unconscious though he may be ot of his function So the history of the American auto automobile automobile mobile Industry has been largely one of It has been the function ot of till builders of the trade here to broaden the usefulness ot of the car to Increase Its field and scope and to bring It Into touch with every phase of the national life Many of the points ot of passage In the history of the automobile will be brought out at the automobile show In February It will be demonstrated full that the auto Industry long ago passed Its teething stage |